Get Moving – Get Healthy <br>New Jersey

The mission of Get Moving – Get Healthy New Jersey (GMGH – NJ) is to improve the health of individuals, families and communities. GMGH – NJ encourages a healthy lifestyle – especially healthy eating and physical activity – through educational programs, its website, publications and targeted marketing campaigns. Rutgers Cooperative Extension works in partnership with state and local governments, research institutions, professional groups, corporations and private organizations to achieve this mission.

Their Family Meals program helps children learn and establish healthier eating habits with helpful tips and resources about cooking and eating together. From practical ways to trim high grocery prices to age-appropriate cooking tasks for kids, you’ll be cooking together in no time!

In addition, this statewide program features a number of other initiatives and tools that address a variety of wellness concepts:

At Southwest Leadership Academy Charter School in southwest Philadelphia, PA, food is intersecting with art in a whole new way with Lead Art Teacher Deva Watson’s collaboration with Philadelphia restauranteurs and a local arts organization Fresh Artists to create the Fresh Palates to Palettes program. Fresh Palates to Palettes aims not only to teach art, […]

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